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Re: suggestion required for optimum Timer interrupt rate -i.e tick rate
- From: Iztok Zupet <iz at vsr dot si>
- To: radhakrishnan R <radhaamanji at yahoo dot co dot uk>,ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:34:42 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] suggestion required for optimum Timer interrupt rate -i.e tick rate
- Organization: VSR d.o.o.
- References: <20030529121859.66294.qmail@web14311.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: iz at vsr dot si
On Thursday 29 May 2003 14:18, radhakrishnan R wrote:
> In eCos the default timer inettrupt rate programmed is
> 10 miili second.
> What is the optimum timer interrupt rate to be
> programmed??. Is this parameter application
> specific??.
That is an average optimum. For instance it works well on a 133 Mhz K5x86
CISC. If You have an 1.6 Ghz/400Mhz Pentium 4 CPU you can change that to 1 ms
(according to my calculation and experiments).
Regards
iz
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